Label for wound or rolled fabrics



' S. C. LONERGAN LABEL FOR WQUND OR ROLLED FABRICS Filed Jan. 27. 1922 Federated Jan. 1, 1924 wait;

STEPHEN C. LONERGAN, OF PAVTTUCKE'E, RHGDE ISLAND, ASSIGNOB TO SAYLES FIN- ISHING PLANTS, INCL, 0F SAYLESVILLE, HHODE ISLAND, A CORPORATION OF RHODE ISLAND.

LABEL FOR WOUND OR ROLLED FABRICS.

Application filed January 27, 1922.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, STEPHEN G. LONER- GAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Pawtucket, county of Providence, and State of Rhode Island, have invented an Improvement in Labels for Wound or Rolled Fabrics, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like characters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in labels, and more. particularly to labels for cloth or other fabric wound or supported upon a holder.

When cloths and other fabrics are finally prepared for shipment or are to be placed upon the market, they are frequently wound upon a holder, or as it is commonly termed, a board. The board or holder may be of any character or form adapted to support the cloth or fabric, but usually it is as its name implies, a fiat, boardlike structure, either made of a single piece of material or built up from constituent parts, so that when the cloth or fabric is wound thereon, the ends of the holder or board appear at the end of the cloth or fabric roll.

For shipment, packing, and other purposes, it is desirable that the holders or boards on which the cloth or fabric is wound, occupy as little space as consistent with the necessary dimension to secure strength and stability, and as a consequence, such holders are usually made only sufficiently thick to answer the above requirements. On the other hand, the exposed ends of such thin holders ofier little opportunity for attachment of labels or other printed matter, so that some dealers or manufacturers have sought to improve the appearance of the goods by winding them on a heavier and more expensive holder or board, or even a reel, the end portions of which offer the desired dimension for receiving a label or other advertising matter. Such heavier board, reels and the like, however, add materially to the cost and occupy large space when the rolled or wound fabric is to be packed or shipped, so that an important feature of the present, invention consists of a label adapted for use in connection with the less expensive and thin holders or boards and yet has an information-bearingportion of large dimension covering the end of the Serial No. 532,098.

board, and in part overlying a portion of the built-up roll of fabric.

It is not usually convenient to attach the label to the goods until after they are wound upon the holder, and a further feature of the present invention is a label formed preferably of flexible-sheet material bent to provide two legs, both adapted to be inserted between the same surface of the holder and the adjacent cloth or fabric wound thereon, and united to an informationor data-bearing portion by two backing. wings. The two backing wings, in some cases, are bent in opposite directions from the plane of the legs, and are connected to the data or information-bearing portion along the longitudinal edges thereof, the

construction being such that when the legs of the label are inserted between the cloth or fabric, and one surface of the holder or,

board, the dataor information-bearing portion of the label may cover and lie close and snug against the end of-the holder and also overlie part of the wound cloth or fabric. The extent of the dataor information-bearing portion of the label is altogether independent of the thickness of the board or holder, so that by varying the extent of the backing wings, the information-bearing portion of the label may be made sufiiciently large to receive any desired data or information.

- To facilitate the insertion of the. two legs together at one surface of the holder, one

of the legs is made longer than the other,

connected thereto, so that in cases where a tag is to be attached to the holder or board between its side edges, as is sometimes desired, the attaching string or other flexible tag connector may pass between the end of the cloth or fabric holder and the free overlying backing wing.

The label is preferably, though not necessarily formed of a cardboard or heavy paper which offers advantages in that the flexible material of the label may be readily folded along the lines of bend which connect the legs and their respective backing wings, as well as the backing wings with the information-bearing portion of the label.

Novel features of the present invention will be made clear from the following description and accompanying wherein Figure 1 is a perspective vie v, some of the cloth or fabric being broken away, and showing the label of the present invention being applied;

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section, in perspective, showing the label with two legs being inserted between the one surface of the holder or board and the adjacent fabric or cloth;

Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section through one end portion of the wound cloth or fabric, showing the label fully in place and a tag attached to the board or holder; and

Fig. 4 is a plan view of a blank from which the label is formed.

The board or holder 1 on which the cloth or fabric is wound or rolled, may be of usual construction. In the present instance is it typified as a fiat and substantially rectangular holder on which cloth or fabric 2 is wound layer after layer. There is nothing peculiar in the holder or board, or in the way of rolling or winding the cloth or fabric thereon.

The label may be made of sheet material which, for convenience, may be cut into blanks 3, such as shown by Fig. 4, for instance. In the present instance the sheet material is typified as light cardboard or heavy paper, and the blank 8 is formed with an oblong or pointed portion i at one side of an information-bearing portion 5, and a somewhat similar but shorter oblong portion '6 at the opposite side of the informationbearing portion. The two portions 1- and constitute the legs of the label, the longer one a of which overlies the shorter leg (5, and serves as a guide or protector for the shorter leg when the two legs are inserted between the cloth or fabric roll 2 and the surface of the board or holder 1.

The blank 3 may be appropriately scored along the lines 7, 8, 9 and 10, such scores being spaced apart a distance determined by the size or dimension desired for the information-bearing portion of the label and the extent or relative sizes of the two backing wings which connect the legs with the information-bearing portion.

The longer leg & in the present instance is bent along the line 10 to provide an up wardly-extending portion 11 which constitutes the backing wing connecting the leg drawings,

4. with the information-bearing portion of the label. At the line 9 the material of the blank is again bent or turned and then can ried downwardly as shown in Fig. 3, to constitute the information-bearing portion 12 of the label. edge of the information-bearing portion 12 the material of the label is turned along the line 8 and then carried upwardly to constitute the lower backing wing 13 which terminates at the fold line 7 where the lower backing wing joins the shorter leg 6 of the label.

From the construction as thus far described, it will be clear that the area of the information-bearing portion 12 of the label may be varied and in some cases as shown by Fig. 3, it may be sufficiently large to cover not only the end portion of the board or holder 1, but also the edge portions of the wound or rolled fabric- 2. The extent of the information-bearing portion will be dependent upon the extent or size ofthe respectivebacking wings 11 and 13.

Since the label is unattached to the-cloth package by any positive connection therewith, it may be desirable-to form the legs 4: and 60f suflicient sizeto enable the label to be held frictionally and yet securely between the surface of the board or holder and adjacent surface ofthe cloth or fabric wound thereon.

By reason of the fact that both legs a and 6 of the label enter between the same surface of the board'or holder and the cloth wound thereon, the backing wings 11 and 13 are of unequal extent. In the present instance the backing wing 11 is connected to the longer leg 4., while the longer backing wing 13 is connected to theshorter leg 6, so that when the label is in place as indicated in Fig. 3, the backing wing will support the informatiombearing portion of the label symmetrically and snugly against and with reference to the end of the cloth or fabric package.

It is sometimes desirable to attach a tag to the holder or board, such attachment. being usually secured through the medium of a string or other flexible connection. In the present instance the holder or board 1 is shown as provided with an opening l i substantially midway between the side edges of the board or holder, or substantially central thereof. The-tag 15 is provided with a string or flexible connection '16 which, by reason of the label construction as hereinbefore described, is passed'betweenthe backing wing portion 13 of the label, then along the surfaces of the board or holder 1, through the opening 14 so that the tag may hang centrally from the end ofthe wound cloth package.

What is claimed is A label for cloth Wound upon a holder,

Along the lower longitudinal comprising in its construction a fiat card board portion adapted to be inserted between one surface of the holder and the adjacent cloth wound upon the holder, and an exposed label bearing portion also formed of card board and flexibly connected to the flat card board portion back of the label bearing surface longitudinally along a line of fold unequally distant from the two longitudinal edges of the label bearing portion that the narrower part of the label bearing portion at one side of the flexible connection may cover exposed edges of the cloth at one side of the holder, and the wider part of the label bearing portion at the other side of the flexible connection may cover the end of the holder and edges of the cloth at the other side of the holder.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification.

STEPHEN C. LONERGAN. 

